Latino American folktales

Author(s)

• Green, Thomas A.

Bibliographic Information

Latino American folktales

edited by Thomas A. Green

（Stories from the American mosaic）

Greenwood, 2009

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Latino Americans have a powerful voice in society and a wealth of cultural traditions. Fundamental to those traditions are numerous folktales. Some are funny, some draw upon the supernatural, some look back on ancestral ways, and some capture the experience of Latinos in the United States. Written expressly for students and general readers, this book assembles and comments on a wide range of Latino American folktales. These are grouped in topical sections on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural. Each tale is introduced by a headnote, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic resources suitable for student research. Students of literature and language will value this book for its exploration of Latino American folktales, while students of history and society will welcome its illumination of the Latino American experience. The more than 30 tales are grouped in thematic sections on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Origins Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca Jesus The Peak of Gold Becoming American 2. Heroes, Heroines, Villains, and Fools The Little Green Rabbit A New Mexico David John Tiger The Boy Who Became King Maria the Ash Girl Blanca Flor The Bear Prince The Prohibited Chamber Tale of the Rabbit Brother Coyote Sister Fox and Brother Coyote Pedro de Urdemalas Pablo Apodaca and the Bear 3. Society and Conflict Manuel Jesus Vasques: A Life on the Southwest Frontier Francisco Trujillo and Billy the Kid Elfego Baca Sunday Seven The Bird of the Sweet Song The Louse Skin Coat 4. The Supernatural Papantzin Clemencia and Jos The Giants Secret La Llorona Bullet-Swallower The Accursed Bell El Seor Milagroso Rescues a Stingy Son The Penitent Brothers The Living Spectre Three Live Witches The Witch Deer Witch Tales from New Mexico Selected Bibliography

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Details

• NCID: BA89805172
• ISBN:
  • 9780313362996
• LCCN: 2008040216
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 174 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GR114
  • DC22 : 398.208968/073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Latin Americans -- Folklore
  • LCSH : Tales -- Latin America
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA89805139